Poland Launches Renewable Energy Resources Drive

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Poland has favorable technical and economic factors for renewable energy. The country, which traditionally has a coal- and lignite-fed power industry, has begun to move away from traditional fossil fuels toward the development of renewable energy resources. It has established a 7.5% target for energy production from renewable sources by 2010, and 14% by 2020.

The installed wind power capacity in Poland was about 1,181 megawatts (MW) in January 2011 with 13 professional projects, in addition to single turbines or groups of small turbines distributed throughout the country.

In Zachodniopomorskie, a coastal province in northwestern Poland, the Province Marshal's Office adopted a province energy sector development program for 2015 through 2030. The program presents an assessment of the energy sector and the energy balance in the province; a forecast of development trends by 2030; main and specific targets; and financial framework and monitoring procedures for the implementation of the targets. The program develops three wind power development scenarios for the province, assuming it will reach 600 to 1,000 MW of installed capacity by 2015.

Liquid and solid biomass technologies are considered to be the main sources of renewable energy for electricity and thermal energy production in Poland. This is because biomass and supply sources are relatively mature, and the investment costs are lower than those for other maturing renewable energy technologies.

Dalkia Polska (Warsawa, Poland) is building two boilers in Poland that are wholly dedicated to biomass. The project will raise renewable energy production at Dalkia's cogeneration plants in Lodz and Poznan to 18%, with a green capacity of 67 MW, as this project is Dalkia's biggest biomass project to date. At the end of 2011, about 700,000 metric tons of biomass, 80% of it from forests, will be used in place of coal. The $100 million investment is expected to generate an additional $46 million in annual revenues for Dalkia. The project will be completed in 2012 and will exceed Poland's energy policy goal of 15% renewable energy, helping avoid 460,000 metric tons of annual CO2 emissions.

Biomass and wind appear to be the most promising renewable energy resources for development in Poland, with an estimated potential of about 4,000 MW each. Poland has some of the best wind resources in Central and Eastern Europe, with power density reaching up to 1,000 watts per square meter in some areas.

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